“7 WILL tell you,” said the Soldier who cheated the
Devil, “a story of a friend of mine.”

“ Take a fresh pipe of tobacco,” said St. George.

“Thank vou, I will,’ said the Soldier who cheated the
Devil.

Fe filled his long pipe full of tobacco, and then he tilted tt
upside down and sucked in the light of the candle.

Puff! puff! pug! and a cloud of smoke went up about
his head, so that you could just see his red nose shining
through 1, and his bright eyes twinkling in the midst of the
smoke-wreath, like two stars through a thin cloud on a
summer night.

“PU tell you,” said the Soldier who cheated the Devil,
“the story of a friend of mine. 'Tis every word of it just
as true as that I myself cheated the Devil.”

He took a drink from his mug of beer, and then he
began.

“Tis called,” said he—